The "centrists" running the Democratic Party are to blame for Walker's win.

[Mr.Turnip]

7. Can we not go around asigning blame here?

It is not at all what we need to do right now.

Walker won for a lot of reasons, He had more money, he was better at getting his voters to turn out, Barret wasn't all that charismatic.

Most importantly id say that the anger at Walker over the Union stuff which spurred the recall didn't last as long as we needed it to, and so Walkers approvals recovered. Granted there are a ton of other reasons why Walker is a bad Governor but nothing he's done has gotten that much attention, put with people who just dislike recalls it just made it very very difficult to win.